Formal Growth In The Desert - Protomartyr: Review
Protomartyr are a Detroit post-punk band who've been around for over a decade and released 6 albums. Formal Growth In The Desert is the group's second release of the 2020s and follows Ultimate Success Today three years ago. Review by Lav: In the span of a few years, Protomartyr made a LOT of post-punk music that I really enjoyed. Their third and fourth albums The Agent Intellect and Relatives In Decent are still favorites of mind in retrospect and the band turned around and released some of their best material ever on the Consolation EP in 2018. Though I did enjoy Ultimate Success Today when I originally reviewed it back in 2020 but after a recent re-listen of the album I didn't think it was quite as interesting. That's something I wasn't really nervous about going into Formal Growth. Even though I have very mixed feelings on the singles one thing you can't call them is forgettable. This record definitely lives up to the promise it made of a num...